Flood closes more roads, severs Longmont's north, south sides

LONGMONT -- Interstate Highway 25 is now the only way to reach Longmont, the city announced today, and even that way may be blocked for southern residents.

At about 4:11 a.m. today, Deb Cameron of Longmont Power and Communications said the sole route into town was now to take I-25 to Colorado Highway 66 and then Colo. 66 to Main Street. All north/south travel inside Longmont has now been cut off by rising flood waters; the last known connection, from Ken Pratt Boulevard to Third Avenue, is now restricted to emergency vehicles only.

"Residents of south Longmont will find road travel to be extremely difficult as there are no known roads from south Longmont to I-25," Cameron said.

Rising waters in the St. Vrain River and Left Hand Creek began severing roads Thursday. As of this morning., the city's list of road closures included:

* Main Street from Ken Pratt Boulevard to Pike.

* South Main Street from Missouri to Plateau

* Quail Road from Main Street to the east

* Ken Pratt Boulevard both directions between east Third Avenue and South Main Street. (Open to emergency vehicles only.)

* South Hover Street between Pike and Plateau.

* The intersection of Hover and Colo. 119, only in the southbound lanes to Boulder.